Combined sign and price-current



(Hommel.)

J. V. REED.

GOMBINED SIGN AND PRICE GURRENT. No. 485,229. n Patented Nov. 1, 1892.

1 PLUGTO BAcgco /@f mi SUGA R" y-Q'f L/(y L ocu Rib c .yhlf Z (Q) LARDum. 5j; @,ze l mi HAM E;6 2 k +22* lUNITED I STATES Pn'rmrrA Orifice.

JOSEPIIV. REED, OF JEFFERSONVILLE, INDIANA.

COMBINED SIGN AND PRICE-CU RRENT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 485,229, dated November1, 1892.

Application iiled May 12, 1892. Serial No. 432,743. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern:V

Be it known that I, JOSEPH V. REED, a citizen of the United States,residing at .leitersonville, in the county of Clark and State ofIndiana, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in aCombined Sign and Price-Current, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to provide manufacturers with a sign foradvertising their goods, which, outside of and apart from the immediateadvertising purpose and the intrinsic excellence or beauty of the signitself, shall contain or comprehend additional signs in the nature ofprice-currents for use by dealers handling other classes of goods-forexample, staple merchandise-the additional signs being provided as aninducement for dealers to display the sign as a Whole. The additionalsign or signs are provided with movable cards, upon which the changes inmarket-prices may be noted as they occur. These additional 'signs aremade in sections and are provided with separable connections to permitof interchangeability with relation t0 the main sign and one another'.Vhen the price-current signs are made of Wood, narrovi7 boards are usedand linked together in sections for economical use of lumber. Inasmuchas these signsare to be givenaway with the goods advertised in the mainsign, it is advisable, if not necessary, that they should be of suchform as to pack most economically for transportation, and thisconsideration also is a controlling influence in making the signs insections.

Having thus stated in a general way the nature and object of myinvention,I will proceed to describe the same in detail, and will pointout and distinctly state what I claim as my invention.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating :my invention, in the severaliigures of which like parts are similarly designated, Figure l is anelevation; Fig. 2, a longitudinal section taken in the plane of line x cof Fig. l and looking toward the left; and Fig. 3 is a partly mutilatedperspective of portion of a pricecurrent sign.

The letter a, designates the main sign containing the advertisement of abrand or line of goods it is desired to push in the market. A suspendingdevice, as a screw-hook b, is applied to this sign; but of course anyother kind of suspending or fastening device may be used.

The price-current signs c and d (only two sections of which are shown)are composed of a number' of strips e, which when iiexibly or movablyconnected together, as by screw hooks and eyes j' and g, in separablesections correspond in Width and length to the main sign. Each sectionof three (more or less) strips e is adapted to be interchanged with theothers and with the main sign by means of hooks 7L on the bottoms andeyes t' on the tops. The hooks used in connecting the strips should beclosed about the eyes in order to prevent accidental disconnection ofsuch strips. Any other connecting mediums may be substituted for thescrew-hooks and screweyes; but these will be used, preferably, becauseof their cheapness and ready applicability, especially if the sign belnade of wood.

The strips of the price-current signs are designed to contain the namesof staple merchandise of the trade in which they are to be used. Thedrawings sufiiciently illus` trate my meaning without extendeddescription. For example, a brand of plug-tobacco is to be advertised.The manufacturer, de

siring to place his goods with grocers or gen-- eral-store keepers,furnishes with the main signa number ot sections-say two-of pricecurrentsigns, and on the strips composing these price-current signs he displaysthe words Sugar, Flour, Laid the., being the names of staple goodsusually kept in such stores and the prices of which fluctuate. For theinformation of salesmen and customers these fluctuations may be postedon these price-current signs, and for this purpose the signs may -beprovided with perma-V nent quantity-marks, as Lbs., $1.00, meaning7obviously, so many pounds for so much money, or Per BbL, Per Lo, the.,and immediately adjacent to these arbitrary marks I arrange movablecards 70,011 which may be posted the iiuctuationsin prices as theyoccur. Holders for these cards are made fixtures on the strips e, and acheap and eilicient holder may be 'madeof bits of tin Z, bent IOO uponthemselves, but first secured to the strips by tacks m and by punchinginto the sign their corners n to prevent lateral displacement. Threesuch devices may be employed for each card. Of course I may use otherforms of card or label holders. As each strip is complete in itself, andeach section of strips likewise complete, it follows that the sectionsmay be interchanged with one another and with the main sign, as desired.

The signs maybe made of any suitable material and inscribed by painting,printing, embossing, or otherwise, and may be elaborate in design andexecution or otherwise.

The sections are of substantially-equal Width and length, so as to bebundled compactly for economy in transport-ation.

What I claim is- 1. A combined sign and price-current comprising a mainsign containing a permanent or standing advertisement and a number ofprice-currents composed of strips containing permanently the names ofgoods or merchandise and also having movable price-cards, such stripsbeing flexibly connected together and forming sections of substantiallythe dimensionsof the main sign, said sections being interchangeable withone another and with the main sign, substantially as described.

2. A combined permanent sign and movable or changeable price-currentcomposed of a number of sections separably connected together, one ofthe sections being solid and the others constructed of a series offlexiblyconnected strips, all of the sections being of essentially-equallength and Width to admit of the formation of a compact and even packagefor transportation and storage purposes, substantially as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto setmy hand this 9th day of May, AJ).1892.

JOSEPH V. REED.

Vituesses:

E. V. EMERSON, W. H. SMITH.

